Biotechnology & Drug Discovery in Japan & Korea

10 biotechnology & drug discovery providers across Japan & Korea, publishing 7 APIs.

10 providers 7 published APIs 7 indexed documents

Biotechnology & Drug Discovery across Japan & Korea — 10 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 7 indexed APIs.

3 of the 10 publish at least one machine-readable API; 7 publish nothing indexed at all. That split is the first thing worth reading here — a vertical can be well represented in a market and still have almost no programmable surface.

By Kin Score band: 7 minimal, 2 emerging, and 1 thin.

Leading by rating: Tohoku University, aceRNA Technologies, Spiber, ACTIVON Co., Ltd., 1ST Biotherapeutics, AI Medical Service, and 4 more.

Region membership is derived from three explicit signals — a provider tag, a provider-name pattern, or a stated headquarters in the provider’s own description. This is a map of stated headquarters, not of markets served.

Providers (10)

Provider Description APIs Rating
Tohoku University Tohoku University is a Japanese national research university in Sendai, founded in 1907, one of the seven former Imperial Universities and a Designated National University. Its ... 5 thin
aceRNA Technologies aceRNA Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Japanese biotechnology venture founded in April 2018 to commercialize the RNA design technology ("RNA Switch") developed in the synthetic RNA ... 1 emerging
Spiber Spiber Inc. is a Japanese biotechnology and advanced-materials company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Spiber develops Brewed Protein ... 1 emerging
ACTIVON Co., Ltd. ACTIVON Co., Ltd. (엑티브온) is a South Korean green-biotechnology materials company founded in 2009 and headquartered in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, that develops and manufactures cosmetic... 0 minimal
1ST Biotherapeutics 1ST Biotherapeutics (1STBIO) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. It discovers and develops novel small-m... 0 minimal
AI Medical Service AI Medical Service Inc. (AIM) is a Tokyo-based med-tech company founded in September 2017 with the mission to save lives worldwide by eliminating gastrointestinal cancers throug... 0 minimal
Plantner Inc. Plantner Inc. (PLANTNER) is a South Korean biotechnology company specializing in the extraction and manufacturing of alginic acid, a biodegradable marine-derived biomaterial. Op... 0 minimal
Aculys Aculys Pharma, Inc. is a Japanese clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on neurological and psychiatric diseases where there is high unmet medical need. The company w... 0 minimal
AbTis AbTis Co., Ltd. (앱티스) is a South Korean biotechnology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, inside the Dong-A Socio Holdings R&D Center. It develo... 0 minimal
ADEL, Inc. ADEL, Inc. (주식회사 아델) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2016 as a spin-off from the Asan Medical Center / University o... 0 minimal

Indexed API documents (7)

Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 7 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 7 documents.

jMorp GraphQL API (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization)

Public, anonymous, read-only GraphQL API for jMorp — the Japanese Multi Omics Reference Panel published by the Tohoku Medical Megabank Or...

TOUR Institutional Repository OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for TOUR (TOhoku University Repository). The collection, the departmental set hierarchy and the ...

GakuNin Shibboleth Identity Provider

Tohoku University's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, registered in GakuNin — the Japanese academic access-management federation operated b...

Crossref DOI Registration Membership

Three Tohoku University units are Crossref members registering DOIs under their own prefixes, verified against api.crossref.org on 2026-0...

ROR Organization Record

Tohoku University's Research Organization Registry record, ROR ID 01dq60k83, carrying the English, romanized and Japanese names and the c...

aceRNA Technologies Site MCP

A live, anonymously reachable Model Context Protocol endpoint served from aceRNA Technologies' own host and advertised in the site's llms...

Spiber Content API (WordPress REST)

The read-only WordPress REST API that backs spiber.inc. The service names itself "Spiber API" in its own discovery document and is refere...

Other industries in Japan & Korea

Artificial Intelligence 36 Education & EdTech 21 Data & Analytics 20 Digital Health & Telehealth 14 Healthcare 14 IoT & Connected Devices 14 Supply Chain & Procurement 14 Telecommunications & Connectivity 14 Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 13 Cybersecurity & Identity 13 Retail 13 Developer Tools & DevOps 12 All of Japan & Korea →

Biotechnology & Drug Discovery elsewhere

North America 304 Greater China 61 Europe 48 United Kingdom & Ireland 18 DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 13 France & Iberia 9 India & South Asia 6 Southeast Asia 4 Benelux 3 Middle East 3 Nordics 3 Italy & Southern Europe 2 All of Biotechnology & Drug Discovery →

This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts: Japan & Korea and Biotechnology & Drug Discovery. A provider appears here only when it is already a member of both. Japan & Korea membership is matched on tag, name pattern, stated HQ, so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.

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